Gorokhova Elena - A Train To Moscow A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In post World War II Russia a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in this powerful and poignant novel about family secrets passion and loss perseverance and ambition. In a small provincial town behind the Iron Curtain Sasha lives in a house full of secrets one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love Andrei. Before she leaves Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin's brutality. Kolya's revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation she begins acting in Leningrad where Andrei now a Communist Party apparatchik becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light Sasha's ambitions converge with Andrei's duties and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if as her grandmother likes to say all will indeed be well.
Title: A Train To Moscow A Novel
Author(s): Gorokhova Elena
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781542033862
Pages: 316 Pages
Publication Date: 3/1/2022
Category: Historical Fiction